{"id":4728,"date":"2013-08-09T16:58:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T15:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4728"},"modified":"2013-08-09T16:58:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T15:58:36","slug":"gone-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4728","title":{"rendered":"Gone Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Gone-Girl-Gillian-Flynn\/dp\/0297859382\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/gone-girl-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"gone-girl\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/gone-girl-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/gone-girl-697x1024.jpg 697w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/gone-girl.jpg 872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I reserved this book from the library because it was near the top of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/bestsellers\/books\/ref=sv_b_2\">Amazon bestseller chart<\/a>.  It&#8217;s certainly a page-turner and GF has interesting points to make about male\/female relationships, pop culture and the media.  There&#8217;s a clever take on the &#8216;two sides to every story&#8217; aspect and there is an unexpected twist at the end.  But overall the book didn&#8217;t live up to my expectations.  The writing style is just ok and some parts of the plot verge on the ridiculous.  This book left me feeling slightly flat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reserved this book from the library because it was near the top of the Amazon bestseller chart. It&#8217;s certainly a page-turner and GF has interesting points to make about male\/female relationships, pop culture and the media. There&#8217;s a clever take on the &#8216;two sides to every story&#8217; aspect and there is an unexpected twist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4732,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions\/4732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}